BrowserUk,
assuming I understood the rules

I was just rudely awoken on my day off by work (brain not yet engaged) but I don't think you have. That's probably my fault an not yours. The object of the game is to in fact find subsets of the given set of letters (which is probably why I was focused there). Let me adjust the rules to see if they make more sense and I will give an example as well:

Original: You are presented with 7 randomly selected characters (dups allowed). The object is to come up with as many words comprised of 3 or more of those characters within a certain time-frame.

Updated: You are presented with 7 randomly selected characters which may contain duplicates. The object is to come up with as many words at least 3 characters long that are comprised entirely of a subset of the given characters in a certain time-frame. 

Given:  apetpxl

# The following are all acceptable (albeit not the entire list)
ape
tap
tape
apple
lap

# The following are not acceptable because they contain letters not in
+ given
apples
sex

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Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: Turning A Problem Upside Down by Limbic~Region
in thread Turning A Problem Upside Down by Limbic~Region

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